For fans of: First Aid Kit and Jewel.
The song: “Paws of a Bear” is the title track off Swedish singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik’s upcoming album, available September 27.
About the artist: Growing up in Sweden, Talvik always made music that was in line with her Scandinavian heritage. But after a 16-month, 37-state long tour in the United States, her sound slowly developed into a unique Nordic-Americana hybrid.
Following the release of her 2005 debut album, Blue Moon, and her sophomore album, Streets of Dreams, Talvik began to get noticed. When her breakout album, Big Sky Country, dropped in 2015, it garnered rave reviews from New York Music Daily, which hailed it as “one of the most distinctively memorable Americana albums of recent years.” Now Talvik’s following up with the highly anticipated album Paws of a Bear.